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...Then build yourself up to the right frame of mind. Severance is money that a company gives you so that you'll sign a release promising not to do things like sue or trash-talk the firm in the press. "It's not love, it's not a gift - it's a business transaction," says Alan Sklover, an employment attorney and the author of Fired, Downsized, or Laid Off: What Your Employer Doesn't Want You to Know About How to Fight Back. If you agree to go beyond basic stipulations - perhaps you'd be willing to train the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Layoffs Mount, Severance Packages More Negotiable | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...Lucky” poster is merely a symptom of an endemic problem. Other publicity materials recently seen around campus include boasts about “dead hookers” as a sign of a House’s appeal, not-so-subtle references to oral sex as a form of humiliation, and casual use of oft-derogatory terms like “whore” and “pussy.” It has become normal practice for student organizations and House Committees to use images and language that objectify women as sexual objects in order to promote their...

Author: By Shani Boianjiu, Lisa J. Miracchi, and Eva B. Rosenberg | Title: Sexploitation | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...Sign up to Voluntour. Is there a more wholesome way to spend a spring weekend than on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula on a volunteer vacation? On Saturday, April 18, guests of the Kalaloch Lodge can volunteer with the Clean Coast Alliance to clean up beaches. On Saturday, April 25, voluntourists staying at the Lake Quinault Lodge can help the National Park Service restore a cabin at Olympic National Park; that evening, the lodge will throw a barbecue as a token of its appreciation. Rates for April 17 and 18, at the Kalaloch Lodge, start at $99 per night, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent This Hotel Room for $1. No Foolin'! | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

Baucus, who grew up in a wealthy and well-known ranching family, won a close congressional race in 1974 and four years later was elected to the Senate. He still keeps a sign on the desk in his Senate office that declares "Montana Comes First," and Baucus' concern for holding on to his seat in the traditionally Republican state helps explain why he has so often broken from his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Max Baucus Is Mr. Health Care | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...some ways, Chen's trial is a positive sign that the justice system is alive in the Chinese world's sole democracy. But as the figurehead of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which was founded to build democracy and fight corruption, his family's scandals have brought the party down, and DPP politicians have tried to distance themselves from the scandal - and the man himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan: Ex-President's Corruption Trial Begins | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

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